Natasha 
🇪🇺This reusable grocery list is from the 1950s or earlier. This is what they took away from us.
Schafstelze 🎗🖤@Natasha_Jay reminds me of buying a baby. And a Mick. Whatever that is.
bluestarultor@Dingsextrem Milk. I got tripped up on that, too, but I think it's just lint from toward the top. XD
Petter Tomatensson
Mx Verda@Natasha_Jay I need this but for health shit daily.
Like a section for medications, physio stretches, any measurements to take, and symptoms to discuss at next appt.
Each list would have Braille numbers or tactile symbols engraved. Then you glue a set of labels next to it so you can change them if you need to. And slap a laminated sticker over the lot.
Could do that as-is, really.
Where do I find these metal sheets with toggles?
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✨pencilears✨@MxVerda @Natasha_Jay honestly, a reasonable use for 3D printing
meatballhead@Natasha_Jay the tactile nature of this would make me so happy
Jessie Nabein 
@Natasha_Jay I'm MICK
Otto Rask
@Natasha_Jay For low-vision people interested in the full list:
Left:
- Baby Food
- Bacon
- Bread
- Butter
- Cake
- Catsup
- Cereal
- Cheese
- Cocoa
- Cookies
- Coffee
- Cream
- Delicatess
- Eggs
- Fish
- Flour
- Frozen Food
- Fruit
- Jams
- Juices
Right:
- Matches
- Meats
- Milk
- Mustard
- Noodles
- Oil
- Onions
- Pepper
- Poultry
- Potatoes
- Rice
- Salt
- Soap
- Soups
- Spaghetti
- Spices
- Sugar
- Tea
- Vegetable
- Vinegar
It's enlightening when you think about how priorities have changed. The things they split out and the things they don't list at all and the now uncommon things they do all speak volumes.
Tom Magnanimous@bluestarultor @Natasha_Jay what kind of industry lobbying group got them to separate spaghetti from noodles
@funkula Canned spaghetti, probably. https://blog.bluestarcreations.net/rant-of-the-moment/a-snapshot-in-a-shopping-list/
a stinky ox 🐂@Natasha_Jay must have been awful back then with no TP
J.elgatoDid they have 2-ply?
Certainly not the 32 pack Costco option.
Was TP maybe just an automatic buy each week?
Coles Street Pothole@Natasha_Jay Every day we stray further from God's light.
Grey Goo@Natasha_Jay sounds like a 3d printing job to me :)
Mercurius Goldstein@Natasha_Jay
That reminds me, I need catsup.
That reminds me, I need catsup.
Michael Porter@Natasha_Jay What? No Pop Tarts?! 🙀
katre@Natasha_Jay Why do "cake" and "cookies" even flip off? Just save the cost and make them permanent.
Ryan Castellucci (they/them) 
@Natasha_Jay I like how bacon is the only specifically named meat on there.
Jay@ryanc @Natasha_Jay Depending on the day and what church the user goes to, “fish” can be a hell of a lot more expansive than one might think, too…
WilliamBob@Natasha_Jay -yay! It starts with baby food. Solid historical proof that after-fetus care was once priority number one, BABY!!!😬
Stuart McHattie 👨🏼💻@WilliamBob @Natasha_Jay isn’t that just because it’s alphabetical and they weren’t buying apples or aubergines?
@Natasha_Jay Got my bacon, mustard, catsup, butter, rice, and -squints at list- vegatableau, or something.
YurkshireLad@Natasha_Jay why is there only one slider for cake??
pelha@Natasha_Jay quire all right, thank you. I much prefer notes. 😁
kieran@Natasha_Jay aircraft had a similar design for mechanical checklists too! https://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1430939
Janeishly@Natasha_Jay I've got one of these somewhere - must be more recent as it's in much better condition. (I remember using it in the 1990s, and it was a curiosity even then!)
DB SchweinI'm a little in love with "delicatess" and am now going to look into the etymology of "deli" since clearly this is from before then!
"OED's earliest evidence for deli is from 1948, in the Chicago Tribune." which would lend credence to your "maybe 30s"
JB@Natasha_Jay The nice thing about this grocery list is it’s private. No one from Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Starlink, Meta or Silicon Valley can feed it into their AI simulation of your life.
YellowPup
Tim Chambers
tiaz (classic flavor)@Natasha_Jay what a strange IC.
It's Dug!@Natasha_Jay "Catsup" sounds less like a condiment and more like an informal greeting for felines.
void main()@Natasha_Jay
What is this Catsoup thingy?
What is this Catsoup thingy?
Medea Vanamonde🏳️⚧️ ♀@Natasha_Jay omg.
My Mom had one of those .
Told me it was a mechanical hand computer . A slide rule for grocery shopping
My Mom had one of those .
Told me it was a mechanical hand computer . A slide rule for grocery shopping
jollyrogue@Natasha_Jay I fully endorse spaghetti and noodles being 2 separate things.
jhall251@Natasha_Jay
I do exactly the same thing with a task list app on my phone. I have a list for Costco. A list for the supermarket. A list for trader, Joe's. Etc. I delete items as I put them in the cart and then I undelete them before I go shopping the next time. So all is not lost.
I do exactly the same thing with a task list app on my phone. I have a list for Costco. A list for the supermarket. A list for trader, Joe's. Etc. I delete items as I put them in the cart and then I undelete them before I go shopping the next time. So all is not lost.
Michael Bishop ☕@Natasha_Jay Bread, coffee, and mustard.
Merc@Natasha_Jay This just reinforces my idea that food must have been so boring in the 1930s, or whenever this was. No mushrooms? No garlic? "Catsup" and mustard as the only flavourings. Both "noodles" and spaghetti but no rice? No nuts. No yogurt. Both cookies and cake called out explicitly, but no ice cream, chocolate bars, licorice, etc. Coffee and tea as the only drinks.
It also suggests such a homogeneous culture. If someone were designing something similar today, they'd almost certainly leave a few blank entries so a family could scratch in staple foods they bought regularly that weren't in the typical list.
Randall Lee@merc @Natasha_Jay there's spices for seasoning besides condiments. Also milk and juices for beverages. People were not buying 172/20 ounce bottles of soda at the grocers.
Arianne B@merc @Natasha_Jay yeah this is what astounds me when I think back to my 1960s childhood: just what an incredibly restricted range of foodstuffs we ate. And everyone around us - like MILLIONS of ppl - were eating the same...!
Tricot Feelya@Natasha_Jay I really miss that catsup
@Natasha_Jay I want compliant mechanisms technology to evolve millenia's worth right-friggin'-now so I can just have a pillbox chock full of tactile, modular, durable gizmos like this.
sumokirby (Chris)@Natasha_Jay "Alexa, put vegetable on my shopping list."
suquamish@Natasha_Jay "CATSUP" Really?! How did we even survive the last century?
This is why we need multiple generations of e-waste -- so we can remember to get "KETCHUP."
Wulfy—Speaker to the machinesYou need.to recharge the batt mate!
Danu@Natasha_Jay its from 1954 https://patents.google.com/patent/US2745371A/en
Nini@Natasha_Jay Probably for the best we didn't retain this, seems wasteful to me having such a limited list.
Negative12DollarBill@Natasha_Jay
we used to be a society
we used to be a society
@Natasha_Jay ah so that's what my parents tried to approximate with a computer, a spreadsheet, a printer and a pencil.
TisTree@Natasha_Jay
Where’s the switch for garlic?
How did these people from a hundred years ago survive without garlic?
Where’s the switch for garlic?
How did these people from a hundred years ago survive without garlic?
Elias Mårtenson@Natasha_Jay There are no entries for blåhaj nor energy drinks, throw it in the trash.
Jokes aside though, it's a remarkably complete list. Although for the 50's, I'm surprised there are no cigarettes there. And no beer? (perhaps beer's popularity in the US came later?)
@loke More likely as old as the 1930s, which meant it might have been on the wrong side of Prohibition. Cigarettes back then would have been something you ordered by the carton, as I heard from my grandparents.
Xavier
refraction 